HORS CHAMP
2026 · 2m
Directed by Saskia Maitrepierre
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
In Paris, Tara, a young journalist obsessed with image and flow, interviews a woman who reveals to her a deeper perception of the world — a bittersweet satire on the wilful blindness of our hyperconnected age.
Picked by Margot
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A satire about image-obsession that's too polite, too self-aware of its own critique—it winks at the problem instead of letting the absurdity eat itself alive, which is exactly where most satire fails and why I'm bored.
Maitrepierre situates herself in a lineage of French essay-cinema that goes back through Varda, using the interview form as both subject and method—the 2-minute constraint becomes a formal argument about attention itself, which is precisely where the satire gains its teeth.
The decision to keep the camera on the interviewer's face while the interviewee speaks off-screen is the whole film: we see blindness enacted in real time, a single compositional choice that does the thematic work and makes the budget disappear entirely.